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A visit from Phoo-Phoo and Grandpa

We had the pleasure of having the Johnstone parents visit us in Vienna for a couple of weeks...

It was such a blessing to have them here with us...during a busy week of ministry at the school and then they treated us to a trip to Florence, Italy during our week-long energy break.

Enjoy some pictures from our time with phoo-phoo and Grandpa.


Justin loved Italy...Pizza for at least one meal every day!


Kailyn showing off her new princess shirt

phoo-phoo and Justin checking out the local wares


our tour guide Giuseppe explaining some local info. Our friends, Caleb and Britney Dossett joined us for a few days....

Kailyn made friends with this guy...right in front of the line for the Accademia. If we would have charged all the people in line taking pictures of this moment we could have probably funded our flight back to the states :)

Been teaching about Brunelleschi's dome since my very first year. So cool to see it in person

and another shot from the other side.

Grandpa and Justin finding a dry spot during a rain storm

on our last night, we ordered some fruit for Kailyn and expected to get a standard bowl of canned fruit. The waiter brought a quarter of a pineapple. Kailyn was pretty excited about this.

The pizza making station was open to the rest of the restaurant...so of course Kailyn wanted to watch the pizzas being made. Within minutes she was behind the counter.

sweet moment with phoo-phoo and grandpa on our way to church. 

Kailyn has recently decided she wants to help cook every meal.

Here she is helping phoo-phoo make jello.
We were sad to see them go, but it was so nice to have them here for a little while at least.

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